{"id":16224,"date":"2022-02-01T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/?p=16224"},"modified":"2022-02-01T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T19:53:14","slug":"cdr-maguire-inc-ceo-and-cdr-health-care-inc-ceo-both-alumni-give-1-2-million-to-honors-college-for-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/cdr-maguire-inc-ceo-and-cdr-health-care-inc-ceo-both-alumni-give-1-2-million-to-honors-college-for-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"CDR Maguire Inc. CEO and CDR Health Care Inc. CEO, both alumni, give $1.2 million to Honors College for scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida International University alumni Tina Vidal-Duart and Carlos Duart have made a $1.2 million gift to the FIU\u00a0Honors College<\/a>\u00a0to establish two student scholarship endowments. It is the largest gift the Honors College has received from its alumni to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are humbled to be in a position to make this gift,\u201d said Tina Vidal-Duart. \u201cCarlos and I credit our success to our origins at FIU and are committed to ensuring future generations of students are afforded the opportunity of an incredible education and life-changing experience.”<\/p>\n

Duart and Vidal-Duart both received their bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from the FIU\u00a0College of Business<\/a>, and Vidal-Duart is also a graduate of the Honors College. Duart serves as president of CDR Maguire, Inc., a national consulting firm specializing in engineering and emergency management. Vidal-Duart, his wife, is CEO of the company\u2019s affiliate, CDR Health Care, Inc. that specializes in disaster health and medical services.<\/p>\n

Attributing much of their success to their FIU education\u00a0and the professional connections they made during their studies, the couple have long served the university in various capacities. Duart was recently appointed to FIU\u2019s Board of Trustees by Governor Ron DeSantis and previously served on the FIU Foundation Board of Directors as well as advisory councils in the\u00a0College of Engineering & Computing<\/a>, College of Business and Honors College. He is the recipient of FIU\u2019s Torch Award and College of Business Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Vidal-Duart is a recipient of the FIU Alumni Association Torch Award for Distinguished Alumni and a member of the FIU Foundation Board of Directors. She previously served on the Honors College advisory board and the FIU President\u2019s Council.<\/p>\n

The Vidal-Duart Scholarship Endowment will support the Honors College\u2019s general student population; and the Vidal-Duart First Generation Scholarship Endowment will support the college\u2019s Pell grant-eligible students who are among the first generation in their families to attend college. Preference will be given to engineering and business majors for both scholarships, which are expected to be awarded beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year. Additionally, recipients will be offered the opportunity to complete internships at CDR Maguire and CDR Health Care.<\/p>\n

\u201cTina and Carlos\u2019 gift is transformational. Their generous donation will allow students to realize their professional dreams,\u201d said Juan Carlos Espinosa, dean of the Honors College. \u201cThis is part of their FIU legacy and made even more special for me as Dean because Tina is an alumna of the Honors College.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Honors College is home to 2,400 ambitious, curious and open-minded FIU students from every academic college and major. The college\u2019s curriculum, taught by a diverse and multidisciplinary faculty, is designed to complement all majors to encourage students to think critically and broaden their perspectives. Every Honors student is guaranteed an internship opportunity, and 70 percent major in areas of strategic emphasis for the state of Florida, including STEM and other fields that meet critical workforce and economic development needs. Additionally, Honors students have completed more than 35,000 hours of community service.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarlos and Tina have proved time and again that they are committed to the success of FIU and its students. They are exemplary alumni who are leading the way by providing opportunities to FIU students for generations to come,\u201d said George Corton, vice president for development and innovation philanthropy at FIU.<\/p>\n

This gift benefits the\u00a0Next Horizon campaign<\/a>\u00a0to raise $750 million in support of student success and research excellence at FIU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida International University alumni Tina Vidal-Duart and Carlos Duart have made a $1.2 million gift to the FIU\u00a0Honors College\u00a0to establish two student scholarship endowments. It is the largest gift the Honors College has received from its alumni to date. \u201cWe are humbled to be in a position to make this gift,\u201d said Tina Vidal-Duart. \u201cCarlos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,368],"tags":[453,96,472,376,485,12,463,397,443,366],"class_list":["post-16224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-philanthropy","tag-alumni","tag-college-of-business","tag-donor","tag-donor-spotlight","tag-donors","tag-fiu-alumni","tag-fiu-next-horizon","tag-honors-college","tag-impact","tag-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16226,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions\/16226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}